Boz Scaggs famous quotes

07-18-2025

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
-- Boz Scaggs

#Style #Together #Songwriting
I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.
-- Boz Scaggs

#Singers #Arena #Jazz
My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.
-- Boz Scaggs

#Influence #Heard #Household
My first love was the sound of guitar.
-- Boz Scaggs

#First Love #Guitar #Sound
I was a guitar player first off.
-- Boz Scaggs

#Player #Guitar #Firsts
As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.
-- Boz Scaggs

#Player #Piano #Used
I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.
-- Boz Scaggs

#Able #Steps #Feels
I love all kinds of music.
-- Boz Scaggs

#Kind #All Kinds
I'm not a jazz singer.
-- Boz Scaggs

#Singers #Jazz
The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer.
-- Boz Scaggs

#Thinking #Answers #Singers
There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be.
-- Boz Scaggs

#Radio #Used
I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.
-- Boz Scaggs

#Years #Trying #Fifteen
I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.
-- Boz Scaggs

#World #Distracted
I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.
-- Boz Scaggs

#Voice #Way #Findings
I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.
-- Boz Scaggs

#Quartets #Flexibility
My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.
-- Boz Scaggs

#Parent #Lovers #Music Lover
I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.
-- Boz Scaggs

#Artist #Retrospect #Strings
A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.
-- Boz Scaggs

#Done #Singers
From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians hearts are.
-- Boz Scaggs

#Heart #Play #San Francisco
As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.
-- Boz Scaggs

#Player #Guitar #Style
I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.
-- Boz Scaggs

#Player #Guitar #Rock And Roll
I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.
-- Boz Scaggs

#Musical #Steps #Instinct
I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.
-- Boz Scaggs

#Thinking #Artist #Records
I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.
-- Boz Scaggs

#Thinking #Voice #Hills
Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.
-- Boz Scaggs

#Black #Radio #Sides

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